MOSCOW (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov — On Tuesday, US media reported that analysis of Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez’s electronic devices showed that in 2013 he searched for videos by Anwar Awlaki, a member of al-Qaeda killed in 2011 by a US drone strike.
"First, you’d have to establish whether [there was] religious motivation for this because I think we have seen in the days since this tragic event that this individual had drug and alcohol problems, had problems with mental health and financial problems. I think, those may have had greater effect than any religious motivation he might have had," Ibrahim Hooper said.
The FBI and local and state law enforcement classified the attack as an act of domestic terrorism, but found no links between the gunman and any terrorist or extremist militant group.
